Have now downloaded and installed your dotpet for Artha on my Puppy 4.3.1 system and it seems to be working fine! A very useful dotpet I'd say (albeit taking up a fair amount of space). I used to use Wordweb all the time when studying English and writing essays.

As a matter of interest, did you compile the program on Puppy 4.3.1 or is it from some other distribution originally?

The only thing I'm not so sure about, comparing Artha with Wordweb, is that it doesn't appear to indicate whether a displayed word is being spelled with US English or British English. For example, it recognises both 'color' and 'colour' but doesn't indicate the corresponding US/British characteristic. With so much US English saturating the web, I sometimes start mixing the two variations together; Wordweb was good at straightening me out in that regard!_________________Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.

Have now downloaded and installed your dotpet for Artha on my Puppy 4.3.1 system and it seems to be working fine! A very useful dotpet I'd say (albeit taking up a fair amount of space). I used to use Wordweb all the time when studying English and writing essays.

As a matter of interest, did you compile the program on Puppy 4.3.1 or is it from some other distribution originally?

The only thing I'm not so sure about, comparing Artha with Wordweb, is that it doesn't appear to indicate whether a displayed word is being spelled with US English or British English. For example, it recognises both 'color' and 'colour' but doesn't indicate the corresponding US/British characteristic. With so much US English saturating the web, I sometimes start mixing the two variations together; Wordweb was good at straightening me out in that regard!

It was compiled from the raw source on 4.3.1. The actual executable is small, it's all the dictionaries (and there's more, in the form of various scientist level English lookups).

As for the US English part, Wordweb is developed by Princeton University. So I think that's where the American spelling comes in

http://artha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Features#WordNet

It actually appears that the main executable can be made with notification and spelling checker...dunno what that means, but i will rebuild and upload a small pet that could add this functionality presently._________________ASUS A1000, 800Mhz PIII Coppermine!, 192Mb RAM, 10Gb IBM Travelstar HDD, Build date August 2001.

As for the US English part, Wordweb is developed by Princeton University. So I think that's where the American spelling comes in :P

I think you mean WordNet here rather than Wordweb. Like Artha, I believe the program Wordweb relies to a large extent on WordNet.

Actually, Artha, includes both the British and the American spellings, it just doesn't seem to identify which is which (whereas, the program wordweb does).

sikpuppy wrote:

It actually appears that the main executable can be made with notification and spelling checker...dunno what that means, but i will rebuild and upload a small pet that could add this functionality presently.

Really looking forward to that. Very useful. I'm surprised more users haven't commented, especially since so many ex-Windows users have said in the past how much they missed the program wordweb._________________Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.

I think you mean WordNet here rather than Wordweb. Like Artha, I believe the program Wordweb relies to a large extent on WordNet.

Actually, Artha, includes both the British and the American spellings, it just doesn't seem to identify which is which (whereas, the program wordweb does).
Really looking forward to that. Very useful. I'm surprised more users haven't commented, especially since so many ex-Windows users have said in the past how much they missed the program wordweb.

Yes, I stand corrected

I had to travel to Sydney for a few days but rest assured I am still on the case.

As an aside, it would be nice if more Internet users at least had a inline spell checker._________________ASUS A1000, 800Mhz PIII Coppermine!, 192Mb RAM, 10Gb IBM Travelstar HDD, Build date August 2001.

I can't help thinking that not enough people realise that Artha offline thesaurus exists. It is the ideal solution to such needs, especially since it works with any installed program via its ctrl-alt-W hotkey combination. Far better, I feel, to install the full featured Artha as a dotpet than to clog up Puppy linux by including Abiword with some crummy thesaurus addon of its own. At 12 MBytes, some might say that Artha is a big download, but if a thesaurus is small in download size, it can't be a very good thesaurus anyway (more words - more size)! - all the more important that Artha inherently works as an enhancing add-on for pretty much all installed programs, not just Abiword.

I presume (and its help page supports my thought) that gaiksaurus works as a standalone program only (i.e. can't be activated by highlighting a word in another program and pressing a hot key combination)?_________________Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.